The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-11-28
HAS A GOOD APPETITE.
THE nrooRn OF AN ONO NArEr.
Which Enables All to Positively Identity the
Traditional rHungry Man from Bridge.
port"-rheA Average Meal Of Healthy
Man Who Lives Over There,

bridgeport can bouot OF tho champion
eater ofthe State, II not Of the world. He
has o wide reputation for eating six ordin.
AIRY hotel dinners at ono timo. Mr..
EbeneEsr Lyle hasIlaid q wager with q we'll
known gentleman Of Bridgeport that on
Tuesday night he will eat two gallons OF
stewed oysters, with ease, and 1t Ia safe to
say no will not loeo any money or spend
any for doctor bills %afterward. He docs
not starve himself % sons would suppose
before ouch spells Of eating, but eats %
regularly as a street car driver. He is at
present In the best OF health and labors
day after day, and his eating never affects
him injuriously. Mr.. Lyle 10 well known
all over that vicinity, was born during
the ~iorties, and nlnco his boyhood has
always had o ravenous appetite, which
a good chunk Of breakfast bacon, q
plate OF patotoes, bread, butter and
coffee could not begin to satisfy. He 10
now probably forty.one years Of age, well
and hearty, and as strong 90 an OK.
Scarcely ever has he hsen touched with
any sickness arising from the stomach.
When but q bit OF q boy he considered q
loaf Of bread and three dozen OF eggs an
culinary meal.
Shortly after Mr.. Lyle's marriage, he
wendod his way homo one evening, and,
feeling a little hungry, repaired to the
collar, and, to his wife's astonishment,
returned with q nlxteen.pound ham with
tho yellow covering atill on It,, and two
loavos Of bread. He auked his vile to Join
him In lunch, but she did not feel like
eating mvch raw ham and dry broad. MIR
Lyle quietly but quickly put that si1teer
pounds OF raw ham and two loaves OIL
bread In his stomach, and drank o QUAR-
Of water and retired to bed.
Vi courae come exaggerated stories have
been shoat about this man'g eating, O.
would naturally be the case, but the fore
going and the following are vouched fol
by tho beat people Of Bridgeport to be
facts.
A young nephew Of LJlo's gave the fac
away that during the squirrel season hi
uncle ate fifteen squirrels ct n sitting
and without an effort. Some time since
we'll known citizen, who was known to b
q hearty eater, offered to eat cantelopeI
with Mr.. Lyle, and succeeded in eatin,
three and a half about the size of an or
binary head Of cabbage. Mr.. Lyle nevei
moved from the chair until he had eater
ten cantelopes and half Of a large water
mOlon. Not long eincs q keeper OF a req
tsurant backed down from a wager made
by Lyle that he could eat two and a hal
gsllona OF slowed oysters. The mai
equealed and soon after no heard tho fol
lowing little story, given Oh the bea
authority:
~ think it was some time during th,
first year Of the war, that MIR. Lyle wa
stricken with the smallpox. His physi
clans when leaving him one day after hi
illEess had been long standing, forbad,
the family giving him food. Mr.. Lyl
was somewhat hungry shortly after theil
departure, and diHobeying the instruction
Of the physicians, arose from his bed, ant
finding loaf Of bread and q large piec.
ct aida meat, weighing several pounds, hi
tevoured them both, and drank nearly
two gallons of brttsrmilk that he espiel
in q stone jar nearby. Every perso,
thought he would surely die, bat II We,
not long after until he was on the streets
So remarkable has been the appetite o
this man, that nine times out OF ton thess
%storiea will not be believed; but they Mr.
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